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Linus Torvalds Considering End To Linux 2.6 Series

Posted by Unknown on from the linux-millenium-edition dept.

An anonymous reader writes "With the Linux 2.6 kernel set to begin its 40th development cycle and the Linux kernel nearing its 20th anniversary, Linus Torvalds has expressed interest today in moving away from the Linux 2.6.x kernel version. Instead he's looking to change things up by releasing the next kernel as Linux version 2.8 or 3.0."

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  1. First number by SilverHatHacker · · Score: 5, Funny

    I remember hearing somewhere that Linus said if he ever changed the first number, it meant he had snapped and rewritten it in Python.

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    1. Re:First number by blair1q · · Score: 5, Funny

      He should do the recursive thing like K&R who wrote the C compiler in C, and just write the Linux kernel in Linux.

    2. Re:First number by Hooya · · Score: 5, Insightful

      42 decimal = 101010 binary
      101010 binary = X X X roman
      XXX = pr0n!

      That's the answer to life, the universe and everything! That cheeky Doug A.

  2. Why not 20YY.x by jisom · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Why not make it 20YY.x where x is major release that year. and YY would be current 2 digit year. they been pushing releases every 3 months about.

  3. Re:3.0 ? by Chris+Mattern · · Score: 5, Funny

    Repeat to yourself: It's just a kernel, I really should relax.

  4. End of the line for the distributions by greg1104 · · Score: 5, Informative

    With both RHEL6 and Debian Squeeze on their own versions of 2.6.32, as well as the last Ubuntu LTS 10.04, that version will effectively be the end of the 2.6 line for many places if version numbers jump like this. The kernel versions actively targeted by the -stable team are the only ones some people (including me) are interested in, and this cluster of distributions on 2.6.32 is a good thing in my book. The main issues I'm seeing in newer kernels that I'm concerned about backports of are the continued fixes to weird ext4 bugs happening in newer kernels. Keep those coming, backport drivers for the most common hardware out there, and the rest of the kernel development can march along without me being so worried about it. (Context disclaimer: I worry about PostgreSQL database servers for a living, so my customers are more paranoid about stability than most)

    The eventual release of btrfs is one of the things I'd would be glad to see happen only in a kernel that's clearly labeled part of new, less stable development. New filesystems are one of the hardest things to get right, and there's no other class of bugs as likely to lead to major loss of data.

  5. Re:How about Linux 7.0 by Shoe+Puppet · · Score: 5, Funny

    Just crank it up to 11.0, putting it ahead of Mac OS.

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  6. Re:3.0 ? by Stormwatch · · Score: 5, Informative

    Hal's problem was not sentience, but the fact that a paradox drove it insane. Hal was built to never distort or conceal information, yet was told to do precisely so.

    Just as well, Linux may go insane if it is commanded to contradict its core purpose, so... wait, did anyone add DRM to it yet?

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